homeschool resourcesWhen you are homeschooling on a budget, it leaves you very little room to negotiate for extra classes that you can’t teach. One such field is music. Learning a musical instrument is one such extra class that you may not be able to afford financially. While you can buy the musical instrument, it’s the repeat classes that can add up to a major recurring cost. However there are amazing learning resources on YouTube, most of them free, that you can utilize to help your child pick up the instrument of his choice.

Learn How to Play The Drums at Drumeo

YouTube channel Drumeo is a great place to start learning drumming. There is a five video course for beginners designed by one of the members of Drumeo. As your child’s proficiency increases and interest grows, he could move on to the section of “Play Along” videos. Here they get to play a specific beat that they have been practicing along with an experienced drummer. There are also advanced, paid courses that you may like to consider in the future.

Get on Board With Your Guitar

If your child wishes to begin playing the guitar the YouTube channel of Guitar.com is a quick place to start. He will learn the basics like how to hold the guitar, how to tune a guitar, and what all the parts of the guitar are called. Then the videos move on to learning essential guitar chords, strumming and finally playing songs. Using the videos on this channel you child will eventually be able to learn songs, write music, and even play lead guitar.

Piano is Classic, but Keyboards are Good Too

In case you would like your child to learn how to play the piano, but don’t have access to one, don’t worry. Most piano basics can be easily picked up on a good keyboard. At the YouTube channel Pianolessons.com your child can get a good grasp of the basic keys, music symbols, reading sheet music and techniques of how to start playing a tune.  Stating with nursery rhymes, your child will build up his song repertoire to more popular classics.